Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

yo, why'd the old dude even want a bride, lol?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: want · To what, where: old dude

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 want	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dude	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dude	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obl
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 want	advmod
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bride	det
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 want	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present		the old dude					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bride=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

cos he was rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				rich property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos he was lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lonely	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	cop
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				lonely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cos his brothers all had brides and he wanted one too, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cos	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	advcl
6	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wanted	obj
11	too	too	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 cos	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	co	present		his brothers		tree rules
2	have	past		brides	all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient
3	want	past	he	one		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 4

cos he was lonely and wanted someone to look after the cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lonely	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lonely	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	cop
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	conj
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 cottage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cottage	det
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cos			lonely property	tree rules
2	want	past	cos not said here	someone			tree rules
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here		after the cottage		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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